Part II U.K. [F1 British overseas territories citizenship]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. II heading substituted (26.2.2002) by British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), s. 2(2)(a)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. II (ss. 15–25) excluded by S.I. 1983/882, art. 2(3)

Acquisition after commencement U.K.

[F2 17B Registration: unmarried fathers; the general conditions U.K.

For the purposes of sections 17C to 17F, a person (“P”) meets the general conditions if—

(a) at the time of P’s birth, P’s mother—

(i) was not married, or

(ii) was married to a person other than P’s natural father;

(b) no person is treated as the father of P under—

(i) section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, or

(ii) section 35 or 36 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;

(c) no person is treated as a parent of P under section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; and

(d) P has never been a British overseas territories citizen or a British Dependent Territories citizen.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Ss. 17B-17G inserted (28.6.2022) by Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (c. 36), ss. 2(2), 87(1); S.I. 2022/590, regs. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1 para. 2